Harvard vs MIT

As I build out calendar hubs in various cities I’ve been keeping track of major institutions that do, or don’t, provide iCalendar feeds along with their web calendars. At one point I made a scorecard which shows that iCalendar support is unpredictably spotty across a range of cities and institutions. One of the surprises was Boston, where I found iCalendar feeds for neither Harvard nor MIT.

I’ve recently improved the Boston calendar hub and, as part of that exercise, I took another look at the public calendars for both universities. It turns out that Harvard does offer a variety of calendar feeds. I just hadn’t looked hard enough. There’s even an API: